Thanks to its investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, Microsoft seems to be in a good place to get ahead in the next chapter of computing. The 1000 engineers in the Microsoft Research division have already been experimenting with Xiaolce, a conversational bot for the Chinese market that is able to exchange views on any topic, showing how powerful deep learning AI can be. But Microsoft's Technology and Research and Bing teams are currently testing Tay.ai, a new chat bot designed to engage and entertain people through casual and playful conversation. Tay is targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S, which are "the dominant users of mobile social chat services in the US" according to the About page. "Tay has been built by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians. Public data that's been anonymized is Tay's primary data source. That data has been modeled, cleaned and filtered by the team developing Tay."

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Is there no end to our hubris? As a race that forces robots to hoover our floors, we might think twice about teaching them to navigate a complex world of their own volition, but that's exactly what the team from Microsoft UK are doing with AI in Minecraft. Project AIX is using Minecraft's procedurally generated landscapes to train AI to learn in a changeable world. Currently, the team is asking it to climb to the top of the highest hill it can find. It knows nothing about the world it spawns in.

Microsoft is trying to create AI that can pass for a teen. Its research team launched a chatbot this morning called Tay, which is meant to test and improve Microsoft's understanding of conversational language. For reference, Microsoft describes Tay as "AI fam from the internet that's got zero chill!" Here are some examples of what Tay's been tweeting: Admittedly, those are some of the weirder, more naturally internet-y responses; many others still sound like they're written by a 40-something trying to sound cool. It keeps my chatz organised.

But users won't be speaking to a person, they'll be talking to "Tay," Microsoft's new bot that's powered by artificial intelligence. The easiest way to converse with Tay is on Twitter. All users have to do is tweet at it as if it were a real person and it'll tweet back in a kind of internet patois that doesn't sound like it's coming from a computer. Tay is also chatting on apps like Snapchat, Kik, and Groupme. Tay speaks like a teen because that's how Microsoft's research division built it. According to Microsoft, Tay is "targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the US." "Tay is an artificial intelligence chat bot designed to engage and entertain through casual and playful conversation," Microsoft explains.

Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its Computational Network Toolkit on GitHub. The researchers developed the open-source toolkit, dubbed CNTK, out of necessity. Xuedong Huang, Microsoft's chief speech scientist, said he and his team were anxious to make faster improvements to how well computers can understand speech, and the tools they had to work with were slowing them down. So, a group of volunteers set out to solve this problem on their own, using a homegrown solution that stressed performance over all else. "The CNTK toolkit is just insanely more efficient than anything we have ever seen," Huang said.

The easiest way to converse with Tay is on Twitter. All users have to do is tweet at it as if it were a real person and it'll tweet back in a kind of internet patois that doesn't sound like it's coming from a computer. Tay is also chatting on apps like Snapchat, Kik, and Groupme. Tay speaks like a teen because that's how Microsoft's research division built it. According to Microsoft, Tay is "targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the US." "Tay is an artificial intelligence chat bot designed to engage and entertain through casual and playful conversation," Microsoft explains. Tay's Twitter profile, likely written by a human, describes it as "the official account of Tay, Microsoft's A.I. fam from the internet that's got zero chill!" Microsoft says Tay can tell a joke, play a game like "would you rather," tell stories, and rate pictures that you send it.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Executives previously from IBM Watson, GE Digital, Infosys, and MicroStrategy announced today that they have joined forces with TPG Growth to launch Noodle Analytics, Inc. (Noodle.ai), the Enterprise Artificial Intelligence company. Today's artificial intelligence technologies include machine learning, predictive data analytics, and data science. He is joined by Dr. Matt Denesuk, previously Chief Data Science Officer for GE Digital; Raj Joshi, previously Senior Executive Vice President of Professional Services at MicroStrategy; and Dr. Ted Gaubert, previously Chief Technology Officer of Infosys Consulting. The team brings deep experience in AI, big data, data science, machine learning, and data analytics across industries.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Executives previously from IBM Watson, GE Digital, Infosys, and MicroStrategy announced today that they have joined forces with TPG Growth to launch Noodle Analytics, Inc. (Noodle.ai), the Enterprise Artificial Intelligence company. Enterprise AI represents a major step forward in merging human learning and machine learning, all fueled by big data. Enterprise AI solutions combine world-class expertise in human-centered design, business process engineering, and artificial intelligence technologies. Today's artificial intelligence technologies include machine learning, predictive data analytics, and data science. "Over the next three to five years, artificial intelligence technologies and big data will be the most significant competitive differentiators in business. We are excited to be a pioneer in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence, offering timely, valuable, and affordable solutions to clients. We have the right team, an optimized business model, and the right partners to create extraordinary value," says Stephen Pratt, CEO of Noodle.ai.

The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, held in Austin, Texas, is an incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity, featuring a trade show, startup accelerator, innovation awards and speaking events with industry leaders. "From hands-on training to big-picture analysis of the future, SXSW Interactive has become the place to discover the technology of tomorrow today."[1] This year, conversations around SXSW Interactive have been dominated by mobile apps, virtual reality, 3D printing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence and security. We've chosen to focus on 3 areas that we believe will have the most profound effect on customer experience: Fear of a robofuture was prevalent at SXSW, with apprehensions about how humanoid machines, artificial intelligence and deep learning will impact our future. John Havens, founder of The H(app)athon Project, went as far as to run a session called "The Dispensables", pointing to Gartner research predicting that 1/3 of all Americans will be out of jobs by 2025 due to automation.